Tottenham Hotspur supporters are itching for the club to make the sort of big, serious transfer moves that an organization that is serious about winning trophies even bigger than the Europa League title would make. Spurs like to sell their fans on the story that this is what they are after, and they have been doing an especially hard job of selling that dream to supporters after canning Daniel Levy.
But after not adding a top left winger or striker to the side to replace the goals vacated by prime Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, Tottenham are left with an attack that is almost entirely carried by Randal Kolo Muani and Mohammed Kudus.
Looking ahead to the January transfer window, Spurs supporters were slightly getting their hopes up for Bournemouth star left winger Antoine Semenyo, who has raised his cachet significantly with a sick start to the 2025/26 Premier League season. And with a 65 million pound release clause, the excuse of price can not be made for the Ghanaian international, who won't even miss AFCON this year either.
David Ornstein drops the hammer
But unfortunately, Tottenham Hotspur seem to have slipped out of the heated transfer battle for Semenyo entirely, with Liverpool, Manchester United, and Manchester City now seemingly the last men standing for the Bournemouth man.
In an appearance on the NBC Sports broadcast during Sunday's coverage of Manchester United vs. Aston Villa, top transfer insider David Ornstein reported, via Spurs Zone, that the issue with Tottenham not signing Antoine Semenyo is not financial. Per Ornstein, Spurs were very interested in Semenyo and were indeed ready to meet his wage demands, but he basically politely told them no thank you, I will be looking elsewhere.
Basically, Spurs, as with Bryan Mbeumo and Rayan Cherki this past summer transfer window, got rejected by Manchester United and Manchester City for a top transfer target. That only solidifies Spurs standing as being a step below the other Big Six clubs, to the point where you wonder if their consistently poor performances in the Premier League have permanently placed them below the others, even as they literally beat Man United in the Europa League Final.
Tottenham are going to have to go back to the drawing board with Semenyo now fully in the rearview mirror, and now you had better believe that the mumblings of a move for a player like Manchester City stars Savinho and Omar Marmoush will increase.